Gaming’s ever-shrinking winter doldrums are almost over. In the quiet before the February release storm, we’re spending the three-day Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend getting cozy with some older games and one new one.
The PC has already seen some surprise big releases in 2025, with both My Summer Car and Age of Darkness: Final Stand’s 1.0 releases having blown up on Steam, and the newly launched Dynasty Warriors: Origins is already climbing the charts (it’s out on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S too). Anime boomer shooter Beyond Citadel has also made an impressive splash. Hyper Light Breaker hit its long-awaited Early Access launch this week and the response has been much more mixed.
I’ll be checking out many of these games this weekend among others. In the meantime, here are five other games we’ll be carving out time for and can’t recommend enough.
